# Search busted?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 28, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904 "2008-12-28T01:46:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/1 "2008-12-28T01:46:34Z")

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Trying to find a thread and getting this message:  
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1008  
What’s up with that?

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/2 "2008-12-28T03:26:54Z")

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Been busted long time.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/3 "2008-12-28T04:42:37Z")

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Actually, I used it just a few days ago and it worked fine. It seems to be busted now though.

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/4 "2008-12-28T04:44:45Z")

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test post - new post search says there aren’t any… ?

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/5 "2008-12-28T04:46:09Z")

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Hm. New posts search is bringing up new threads (of which there weren’t any) and offers a link to new posts.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/6 "2008-12-28T09:18:48Z")

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Been busted since the new server was installed – although it will work for some words, it will not work for other words such as:

world

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**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-busted/478904/7 "2008-12-28T10:15:35Z")

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This error is trivial to fix. One number in php.ini. But we’ve been over this, people.